#sanction

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#desired #economic #rarely #results #sanctions

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#concept #incompatible #justice #principle #responsibility

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #god #hero #own #religion

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#direction #dress #effect #end #follow

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#biological #classes #conviction #discrimination #distinction

Sanctions are a bad idea. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#bad idea #idea #sanctions

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#development #funds #government #me #sanctioned

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#east #embraced #enduring #expect #independence

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. ↗

— William Hague

#clear #come #eu #force #further